'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
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I used to shoot indoor theatrical shots with 800 speed film
Sounds reasonable. I don't see how it contradicts my point.
One thing I have never had is a good flash setup. I've been trying recently to expand in that direction, but I don't like travelling that heavy, and I hate on-camera flash and that standard held out to the left as far as possible lighting angle.
I don't like travelling that heavy.
This is the problem with the tripod for sure. I generally don't pack my flash. And I use my 70-210mm so seldom than I'm not sure why I bother with that either.
I gave up on the conversation, I was copying a file off a failing HDD, and it was sucking down processing power.
You guys were all doing a good job, anyway.
ION, now that I am free to post...
Webmonkey is reporting that Microsoft has finally released converters for OSX versions of Office to convert files to Open XML. [link]
What I really have found I need is a camera that will let me take good pictures of things that are happening on stage, well lit on stage (and likely moving around quickly on stage), when I am in a crowd, in the dark. AKA "I'm at a drag show". What the heck camera and setting do I use for THAT?
What I really have found I need is a camera that will let me take good pictures of things that are happening on stage, well lit on stage (and likely moving around quickly on stage), when I am in a crowd, in the dark. AKA "I'm at a drag show". What the heck camera and setting do I use for THAT?
My only complaint is manually focusing; I hate that.
I miss that. My little Canon digital is pretty versatile, but I can't convince it I want the leaf and not the flower.
Couldn't tell you which camera (which camera), but you want to have the film speed (or digital equivalent) set as high as possible, the shutter speed as fast, and the aperture as large as possible. That will maximise the light and the light sensitivity.
eta: Oh, and don't forget bracing as firmly as possible.
Anyone know a simple way to convert a date in US format (eg: "11/2/2007") to English format? (eg: in dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yyyy) using XSL?
I mean, aside from writing code that deconstructs the date and reconstructs it into the English format - is there a built-in conversion for this?
meara, you'd do best with a DSLR with an image stabilized lens. I've been able to take handheld shots with very slow shutter speeds with mine. It's gained be probably two stops, I've had luck with handheld shots as slow a 1/6 of a second shutter speed.
Anyone know a simple way to convert a date in US format (eg: "11/2/2007") to English format? (eg: in dd/mm/yyyy instead of mm/dd/yyyy) using XSL?
XSLT 2.0 has built-in regular expressions. If you don't have XSLT 2.0, your particular vendor might include some kind of non-standard regexp extension. Otherwise, you'll have to futz around with substring-before, substring-after, and concat.